14-12-2017, 04:43 PM
Indian Constitution
is by
*Quasi Federal - K.C. Wheare
*Co-operative Federalism - Granville Austin
*Federation with Centralising Tendency -
Ivor Jennings
*Unitary as well as federal - B.R. Ambedkar
*Language was the criterion for the reorganisation of states.
*Gujarat is the 15th State of India (1960) and Goa became the 25th State of India in 1987 though it was liberated from Portuguese in 1961.
*Telangana is the 29th State of India. It came into being on 2nd June 2014.
*The committee which recommended the creation of Telangana - B.N. Srikrishria Committee
CITIZENSHIP (Article s to 11)
*Part ll-(Article 5 to 11) of the constitution deals with the Citizenship of India.
*We adopted the idea of Single Citizenship from Britain.
*Only the citizens of India have the right to vote in Parliamentary and Assembly elections. Only the Parliament can make provisions relating to citizenship
*Parliament enacted the Citizenship Act in 1955,
Ways of Acquiring Citizenship
* According to the Citizenship Act 1955, person can acquire Indian citizenship by five ways. They are:
1.By Birth
2.By Descend
3.By Registration
4.By Naturalisation
5 . By Incorporation of Territory
Ways of losing Citizenship
*The Act also provides 3 ways by which a citizen may lose his Indian citizenship. They are
(1)Renunciation
(2)Termination
(3)Deprivation
Before applying for Indian citizenship through registration a person has to live in India for five or seven years continuously (earlier it was six months).
